Seminars and Research

Departmental Seminar Series 2012-2013

The seminar series are supported by the generosity of Vanderbilt alumni K. Terry Dornbush (BA ’55), Joe L. Roby (BA ’61), and Douglas Grey (BE ’83)

Department seminar coordinators for 2012-13 are John Conley (micro) and Peter Rousseau (macro).

All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

 

SPRING 2013

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 (Micro)
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
"On conformity, correlated equilibrium and the role of strategic similarity"

Monday, February 25, 2013 (Micro)
Titus Galama, RAND Corporation
"Joint Investment in Human Capital, Health and Longevity: A Theory of Education and Health"

Monday, March 11, 2013 (Macro)
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
"Lending Efficiency Shocks"

Monday, March 18, 2013 (Macro)
Kunio Tsuyuhara, University of Calgary
"Dynamic Contracts with Worker Mobility via Directed On-the-Job Search"

Monday, March 25, 2013 (Macro)
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
"Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations"

Monday, April 1, 2013 (Micro)
Erdal Tekin, Georgia State University
"Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure"

Monday, April 8, 2013
Gregory Huffman, Vanderbilt University
“The Impact of Government Debt and Taxation on Endogenous Growth in the Presence of a Debt Trigger”

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 (Macro)
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
"Unemployment and Business Cycles"

Monday, April 15, 2013 (Macro)
Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia

Monday, April 22, 2013 (Micro)
John Ledyard, California Institute of Technology
"Price Formation In Continuous Double Auctions; With Implications For Finance"

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 (Macro) in Calhoun Hall, room 423
Manachaya Uruyos, Chulalongkorn University
"Entrance Examination, Private Tutoring, and Economic Growth"

Monday, April 29, 2013 (Micro) in Calhoun Hall, room 320
Federico Gutierrez, Vanderbilt University
"Long-Term Consequences of Early Life Health Shocks: Evidence from the 1980s Peruvian Crisis"

 

FALL 2012

Monday, August 27, 2012 (Macro)
R. Anton Braun, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"Some Unpleasant Properties of Log-Linearized Solutions When the Nominal Rate Is Zero"

Monday, September 3, 2012 (Micro)
Michael Hoy, University of Guelph
"Managing Genetic Tests, Surveillance, and Preventive Medicine Under a Public Health Insurance System"

Monday, September 10, 2012 (Macro)
Boyan Jovanovic, New York University
"On the REE with Endogenous Information" [abstract only]

Monday, September 24, 2012 (Micro)
Nizar Allouch, University of London
"The cost of diversity: public good provision and redistribution" [related paper]

Monday, October 1, 2012 (Micro)
Nicholas Yannelis, University of Iowa
"Implementation under Ambiguity"

Monday, October 8, 2012 (Micro)
Jingfeng Lu, National University of Singapore
"Team Contests with Multiple Pairwise Battles"

Monday, October 15, 2012 (Macro)
Jianjun Miao, Boston University
"A Bayesian DSGE Model of Stock Market Bubbles and Business Cycles"

Monday, October 22, 2012 (Macro)
Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University
"Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity"

Monday, October 29, 2012 (Micro)
Roger Lagunoff, Georgetown University
"Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? Disclosure and Auditing in Organizations"

Monday, November 5, 2012 (Micro)
Guillaume Haeringer, Stanford University, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
"Two-Sided Matching with One-Sided Preferences"

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 (Micro)
Diego Moreno, University of Carlos III de Madrid
"Optimal Bank Transparency"

Monday, November 26, 2012 (Micro)
Simon Wilkie, California Institute of Technology
"A Theoretical Analysis of the Impact of Local Media Market Structure on the Range of Viewpoints Supplied"

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 (Micro)
Soo Hong Chew, National University of Singapore
"Partial Ambiguity"

Thursday, November 29, 2012 (Micro)
Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University
"Behavioral Welfare Economics and Redistribution"

Monday, December 3, 2012 (Macro)
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan

Monday, December 10, 2012 (Micro)
Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona
"Mergers When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry"